Tutor for new poetry programme at NorthTec

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Internationally-published poet to tutor new poetry programme at NorthTec

NorthTec will be launching its new Level 5 Poetry 1 programme in July tutored by Irish writer Majella Cullinane.

Born in Limerick, Ireland, and a graduate of University College, Dublin, and St. Andrews University, Scotland where she received an MLitt in Creative Writing, Majella has worked as a teacher and editor in a career which has taken her to the UK, Spain, and Greece before settling in New Zealand last year.

In 2005, she won the Sean Dunne Young Writer’s Award for Poetry and the Irish Arts Council Training and Professional Development Award. In 2007, she won the 2006 Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Literary Award for Emerging Poetry, and was shortlisted for the 2008 Fish Short Story Prize. She has had poetry and short stories published in Ireland, the UK, the US and New Zealand. Her first collection of poetry will appear next year.

“We are absolutely delighted to be launching our new online poetry programme led by such an experienced poet and tutor,” said NorthTec Applied Writing Coordinator, Janine McVeagh. “This is the first time that poetry has been offered on the Applied Writing programme and demand for places on the poetry programme is already strong. There are some places still available for the July intake. Majella will also be tutoring NorthTec’s Poetry 2 online programme when it starts in February next year.”

NorthTec will also be launching a new Research for Writing (Level 6) programme in July tutored by well-known writer and current NorthTec tutor Diana Menefy.

For more information on the new Poetry and Research for Writing programmes and NorthTec’s other Applied Writing programmes please phone 0800 162 100.

NorthTec is the Tai Tokerau (Northland) region's largest provider of tertiary education, with campuses and learning centres in Whangarei, Kerikeri, Rāwene, Dargaville, Kaikohe and Kaitaia. NorthTec also has over 60 community-based delivery points from Coatesville in rural Rodney to Ngataki in the Far North.

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